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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 916.04329
Fabric Type: 9780618446872
Legal Disclaimer: 0618446877
Maximum Color Depth: Mariner Books
Metal Type: Mariner Books
Publisher: 1
Region Code: 496
Total External Bays Free: April 05, 2004
Total Firewire Ports: Mariner Books
Mariner Books
Features:- ISBN13: 9780618446872
- Condition: USED - LIKE NEW
- Notes:
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
In the travel-writing tradition that made Paul Theroux"s reputation, Dark Star Safari is a rich and insightful book whose itinerary is Africa, from Cairo to Cape Town: down the Nile, through Sudan and Ethiopia, to Kenya, Uganda, and ultimately to the tip of South Africa. Going by train, dugout canoe, "chicken bus," and cattle truck, Theroux passes through some of the most beautiful — and often life-threatening — landscapes on earth.
This is travel as discovery and also, in part, a sentimental journey. Almost forty years ago, Theroux first went to Africa as a teacher in the Malawi bush. Now he stops at his old school, sees former students, revisits his African friends. He finds astonishing, devastating changes wherever he goes. "Africa is materially more decrepit than it was when I first knew it," he writes, "hungrier, poorer, less educated, more pessimistic, more corrupt, and you can"t tell the politicians from the witch doctors. Not that Africa is one place. It is an assortment of motley republics and seedy chiefdoms. I got sick, I got stranded, but I was never bored. In fact, my trip was a delight and a revelation."
Seeing firsthand what is happening across Africa, Theroux is as obsessively curious and wittily observant as always, and his readers will find themselves on an epic and enlightening journey. Dark Star Safari is one of his bravest and best books.
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I removed this book from my wish list because it is a paperback. I hate paperbacks. If the book does not come in hardback, I will not buy it.
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Paul Theroux's "Dark Star Safari" is his own "Heart of Darkness". Theroux, who had worked in Malawi and Uganda for a number of years, revisited the African continent at the start of the new Millennium. Full of expectation, he mostly finds misery, backwardness, and deterioration. Theroux is not a traveller easily intimidated - he visits such areas as Sudan and upper Kenya, which most visitors avoid. But even he gets frustrated and worn down by the relentless poverty and misadministration in so many ... Read More
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Paul Theroux is grumpy, but I don't mind. I like his laconic style and astute observations. He is generally very well informed and has done the background research for his travel books. And he writes well. In Dark Star Safari he returns to Africa where he used to live as a Peace Corps volunteer and teacher four decades earlier. He travels overland--on bus, truck, matatu, train, boat--from Cairo to Cape Town taking numerous detours en route. He encounters hardships, although he tends to make a bit too ... Read More
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Dark Star Safari is an account of Paul Theroux's overland journey through Africa and his observations of how the continent has changed in the forty years since he had last been there.
I found this book to be somewhat depressing, as Mr. Theroux is very pessimistic towards Africa and his experiences there. I feel much of his negativity is coming from the basis of comparison of his previous African experiences, and if this was his first trip to Africa the book may have had a very different ... Read More
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We must be grateful for what we've been given, but it's not for the faint-hearted.
Also the atheism grates a bit, even to a secular spiritualist.
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